Stuff and things
I guess it’s been a week since my last update post so here’s what’s going on with me.
Rambles that are fluffy, by fluffy
I guess it’s been a week since my last update post so here’s what’s going on with me.
blep
It’s been a little while again! I think I like these collected updates rather than doing daily micro-dumps, and it’s also nice posting it here instead of on Mastodon or whatever. Timeline-based social media kinda bums me out these days.
But yeah today I’m feeling pretty accomplished!
Time for another tedious life and project update-ramble!
I managed to actually get a lot of stuff done today, and I’m feeling quite tired, but in a good way.
Today my first two slip-cast pots were unloaded from the kiln and I picked ‘em up. They came out great!
My mold positives are 60mm across, and the bisqueware measures just under 54mm after firing, which tells me exactly what I need to know going forward. Basically anything I model needs to be 1.11x the intended final size. Easy enough to remember.
I’ll be glazing these, of course, although I’m not quite sure what to use them for. I’d only intended them for calibrating my shrink factor and they’re not really a useful size for anything. Maybe they’ll become the world’s worst cortado cups.
Notes to self:
Oh well, it was a good learning experience, as long as I actually learned from it.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. Here’s the stuff going on with me I guess.
Warning: ornery and cantankerous.
Today I had my pottery lesson at Rain City Clay, namely their “sip and spin” crash-course to wheel throwing.
A while ago I’d bought a cheap learner’s wheel and while I’d had some fun trying to self-teach on it, I couldn’t quite figure out a few basic things, particularly centering, which is, y'know, pretty important. And it turns out there’s a lot of other basic stuff that I didn’t learn by watching a lot of The Great Pottery Throw Down either! Like how to test the bottom thickness, among other things.